Gartner identifies five emerging technology trends for 2020

“TECHNOLOGY innovation has become the key to competitive differentiation. The pace of change in technology continues to accelerate as breakthrough technologies are continually challenging even the most innovative business and technology decision-makers to keep up,” said Gartner Research VP Brian Burke.

Gartner, who constantly evaluates the technologies that make an impact on business, has identified five emerging technology trends for 2020.

# 1 | Sensing and Mobility

Sensing technologies make IoT possible and provide AI algorithms and models with the data they need, often in real-time, in order to make intelligent operational or business decisions.

Mobility, on the other hand, includes the advances that drones and autonomous vehicles are making and their applications, in say, the last-mile delivery space.

# 3 | Postclassical Compute and Comms

The next generations of core computing, communication and integration technologies will adopt entirely new architectures.

For example, low earth orbit (LEO) satellites can provide low latency internet connectivity globally. These constellations of small satellites will enable connectivity for the 48 percent of homes that are currently not connected, providing new opportunities for economic growth for unserved countries and regions.

# 4 | Digital Ecosystems

Digital ecosystems leverage an interdependent group of actors (enterprises, people and things) sharing digital platforms to achieve a mutually beneficial purpose.

Digitalization has facilitated the deconstruction of classical value chains, leading to stronger, more flexible and resilient webs of value delivery that are constantly morphing to create new improved products and services.